The opportunity
The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes.
What you'll do
Partner with Inference researchers, Scaling, Product, and Data Science teams: to identify, evaluate, and prioritize optimization opportunities, weighing customer and economic trade-offs across model performance, latency, throughput, engagement, and compute cost.
Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives to improve inference efficiency: by establishing clear ownership, coordinating work across teams, and tracking execution progress.
Establish key performance metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks to: identify inference performance gaps and quantify the financial impact of improvements.
Partner with Compute Finance and other Strategic Finance teams to incorporate: expected inference efficiency improvements into long-term compute demand forecasts, capacity planning, investment decisions and financial projections.
A technical academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering, or: mathematics) or current experience partnering closely with research or engineering teams on technical problems.
–10+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy & operations,: strategic finance, or a related analytical role.
What they're looking for
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with a track record: of turning ambiguous problems into actionable recommendations and measurable impact.
- Executive presence and communication skills to build credibility with: researchers and engineers, align stakeholders, and explain technical and financial trade-offs.
- An entrepreneurial mindset, with experience building processes and: independently driving initiatives from idea through execution.
- Technical curiosity and enthusiasm for frontier AI and inference economics.
